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Luxury vehicles arrive for CHOGM
Posted: Thursday, October 8, 2009
President meets with Annisette
Independent Senator Michael Annisette was called in by President George Maxwell Richards to a meeting on Tuesday, the Express has learnt.
PM in security talks with France
PM: We're ready for Commonwealth talks
Prime Minister Patrick Manning is adamant that the National Academy for the Performing Arts on Chancery Lane, Port-of-Spain, will be completed in time for next month's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
Luxury vehicles arrive for CHOGM
Almost 100 luxury vehicles have been imported to Trinidad and Tobago to be used during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port of Spain next month.
Financial crime bills go to House
Questions over FIU Bill
WE congratulate the Independent and Opposition Senators for exposing the potential pitfalls of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Bill 2009 debated in the Senate on Tuesday, but we wonder whether the Government made sufficient concessions to their concerns.
Independents fight in vain
EVEN as members of the Independent Senate benches on Tuesday night flexed their political muscles and secured several key concessions from the Government in passing the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Bill, some yesterday warned the fight was in vain as the concessions were a "smokescreen" which did not address the key problem with the legislation.
Put Central Bank in Charge
At least six of the nine Independent Senators yesterday vehemently objected to plans by Government to place a financial intelligence unit (FIU) in the Ministry of Finance.
Govt cutting it close on $ laundering bills
All 'ayes' in Senate for FIU bill
The Financial Intelligence Unit bill received unanimous support in the Senate on Tuesday night.
Browne: Sunset clause runs afoul of FATF
WHILE there is no specific ban on the introduction of a sunset clause for legislation giving effect to regulations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which is behind the proposed Financial Intelligence Unit, Government yesterday said such a clause would fall foul of the regulations.
UWI students: Increase in property tax so landlords up rents
Mayers: Money done; borrowing soon
Lawsuit over Max's failure
The continuing failure of President George Maxwell Richards to appoint members of the Integrity Commission has now reached the High Court.
AG sued over Integrity delay
NWRHA probe: cops called in
THREE DAYS after the Ministry of Health launched a financial audit into the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA), police were yesterday called in to probe a senior official at the authority for possible misappropriation of funds.
UDeCOTT's songs of innocence
So the board members - Messrs Michael Annisette, Anthony Cherry, Wendell Dottin, Dr Bahadoorsingh, and, of course, Calder Hart who was not present - supposedly have not the slightest inkling that anything is foul in the state of UDeCOTT.
Outrage over strip search
PRESIDENT of the National Parent Teachers Association (NPTA) Zina Ramatali yesterday called for a full scale investigation into the strip search of students at St Joseph College, St Joseph on Tuesday afternoon by police officers.
Gladiator's home robbed
Santa Cruz police are continuing investigations into the circumstances surrounding a robbery at the home of radio personality Ricardo Welch...
Mentally ill taken off streets
Mayor: This is not for C'wealth Heads of Government Meeting
'Prison officers beat me'
The man charged with multiple murders and unsolved kidnappings, Silas Mack, is now claiming a beating at the hands of his prison guards at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.
One dead, 4 wounded in two shootings
Blindfolded and kept in shack for 6 nights
Sita Ragoonanan was summoned as a witness in the Balram "Balo" Maharaj hostage trial in Washington DC on June 22. But she did not go to give details about the Maharaj kidnapping, but her own...
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